Posted!

Join the Conversation

Comments

Welcome to our new and improved comments, which are for subscribers only.
This is a test to see whether we can improve the experience for you.
You do not need a Facebook profile to participate.

You will need to register before adding a comment.
Typed comments will be lost if you are not logged in.

Please be polite.
It's OK to disagree with someone's ideas, but personal attacks, insults, threats, hate speech, advocating violence and other violations can result in a ban.
If you see comments in violation of our community guidelines, please report them.

George Harrison's guitar sells for $490k

A guitar once played by the late Beatles star George Harrison has sold at auction for $490,000.

The instrument - which is said to have been played by the musician during the band's heyday - went under the hammer at New York's Julien's Auctions fetching nearly half a million dollars, reports the New York Daily News.

George - who passed away from lung cancer aged 58 in 2001 - is believed to have borrowed the Mastersound electric guitar from a music store and played it on stage in England and the Channel Islands during the summer of 1963.

It was sold on Friday to an anonymous bidder having previously been on display at the Beatles Story museum in Liverpool.

Other items offered during the two-day rock memorabilia sale included a penguin suit sported by Elvis Presley in Las Vegas in 1975 which went for $122,000, Jimi Hendrix's vest which was sold for $59,000 and a t-shirt once worn by Madonna which went for $25,000.

Elvis' marriage certificate from his wedding to Priscilla Presley also went under the hammer and fetched $40,000.